chlōros

Strong’sG5515

green, pale

stem chlōr-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

χλωρός, -ά, -όν

(< χλόη), [in LXX for יֶרֶק, etc.;]

(a) pale green: χόρτος, Mk 6:39, Re 8:7; πᾶν χ., Re 9:4;

(b) pale: ἵππος, Re 6:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5515 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkhlo-ros'

greenish, i.e. verdant, dun-colored

Fromfrom the same as G5514;

King Jamesgreen, pale.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

χλωρός, ά, όν,
greenish-yellow, pale green, χλωραὶ ῥῶπες Refs 8th c.BC+; also in Prose, σίτου ἔτι χ. ὄντος Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ χ. the green plaster, Refs 1st c.AD+; χλωρὸς λίθος, ={σμάραγδος}, Refs; of sea-water, poetical cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; of other water, Refs 5th c.AD+ green paint, as a stage-property to represent a river in scenery, Papyrus in Refs 5th c.AD+
2 yellow, μέλι χ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀμφὶ χλωρὰν ψάμαθον on the yellow sand, Refs 5th c.BC+; ᾠοῦ τὸ χ. yolk of egg, Refs 1st c.AD+
II generally, pale, pallid, χλωρὸς ἀδάμας Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2 of persons, pale, χλωρὸς ὑπαὶ δείους Refs 8th c.BC+; χ. Ἀχλύς (personified) Refs 8th c.BC+; hence as an epithet of fear, χλωρὸν δέος Refs 8th c.BC+: in in Medicine texts writers, yellow, biliouslooking, ὀφθαλμοὶ -ότεροι see reading in Refs 5th c.BC+; also χ. πτύελος, οὖρον, Refs 5th c.BC+
III without regard to colour, green, i. e. fresh, opposed to dry, especially of wood, ῥόπαλον.. χλωρὸν ἐλαΐνεον of green olive-wood, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to αὖος, Refs 8th c.BC+; of various things, χλωραὶ ἐέρσαι Refs 5th c.BC+; τυρὸς χ. fresh cheese, Refs 5th c.BC+; of fish, fresh, not salted, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of fruit, fresh picked, Refs 1st c.AD+
III.2 metaphorically, fresh, blooming, χλωρόν τε καὶ βλέποντα Trag. cited in Refs 5th c.AD+ (perhaps to be read in Refs 4th c.BC+; λειμὼν ἄνθεσι (sed perhaps ἔρνεσι) θάλλων χλωροῖς Refs 5th c.BC+fresh, living, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. δάκρυ fresh, bursting tear, Refs 5th c.BC+sparkling, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 metaphorically, unripe, χ. καὶ ἄναιμα πράγματα Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

green3×pale green1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	chlōros2×χλωρός	chlōras	chlōrem1×χλωρὸν	chlōrois	chlōrais	chlōreim
object accusative	chlōron	chlōran		chlōroin	chlōrain
direct address vocative	chlōror	chlōrar		chlōroir	chlōrair
of, belonging to genitive	chlōrou	chlōrau	chlōreu	chlōroiu	chlōraiu	chlōreiu
to, for dative	chlōro1×χλωρῷ	chlōra	chlōre	chlōroi	chlōrai	chlōrei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

chlōrstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

chlōr is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

chlōros“green”subjectnominative singular2×

Revelation 6:8kai horama, kai idou hippos chlōros, kai tos kathorōntos epanō autou onomem …Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death …

Revelation 8:7… teiu dendreiu katakaiita, kai pantos chortos chlōros katakaiita.… of the trees and all the green grass.

chlōro“green”to, fordative singular1×

Mark 6:39… anaklinara pantoin sumposieim sumposieim epi to chlōro chorto.… people sit in groups on the green grass.

chlōrem“green”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Revelation 9:4“green”… ton chorton tau gēau oude pantem chlōrem oude pantem dendrem, ei mē toin …… to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did …